TASMAN PHONE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11196, 3 May 1930, Page 5

TASMAN PHONE

EARLY INTRODUCTION. PREM 1 ER’S BTATE'MENT. (Press AB8ooiat»on.) WELLINGTON, .May 2. Regarding tilt* cable message Jrom Zydnev stating that the managingdirector of Amalgamated W ireless (Alist..), Ltd., was hoping to estaG iish a radio telephone .service between Australia and New Zealand, the Prime Alihister, Sir Joseph Ward hy telephone 1 roll) Rotorua, stated to-dav that the Government m New Zealand had been m eommuincation with the Australian postal authorities since September and that negotiations are almost completed for the introduction of a radio telephonii service het\ve(*]i Wellington and S'-vdney. Most of the material is already at hand and tho balance is expected' within the next two months. It is hoped that tins telephone service will tie ol great assistance to business men in New Zealand, as it will enable any business man connected with telephone in Wellington and perhaps elsewhere, to communicate wilh any business man in Sydney. , , . . li," is also hoped that later those who wisli to communicate with nondon will he switched through a! Sydney to ihe lleW telephone service opened lhe other day. negotiations well advanced. United Press Assn, by El Tel- Copyriffht (Received May 2, II p.m.) MELBOURNE. .May 2. The. Rostmaster-Generai’s Department. predict an early extension ol the radiophone to New Zealand. Much progress has already been made in the negotiations between Australia and tho Now Zealand authorities.